Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko’s name is surely on the list of Ukrainian leaders to be rounded-up for a Moscow show trial if the city of Mariupol ever decisively falls (which it very nearly did). This man of the cloth is also on the enemies list of a drug dealer known on the streets as Abrahina.
In both cases, Pastor Mokhnenko has called out those who threaten his flock and his country. That country is Ukraine. Nobody is more aware of the nation’s systemic social pathologies or more determined to fix them than the good cleric profiled in Steve Hoover’s documentary, “Almost Holy” (also known as “Crocodile Gennadiy," co-executive produced by Terrence Malick.
Pastor Mokhnenko will give young junkies a hot meal, a warm bed, and possibly even hope.
